Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 135 The Devil on Duty

The peace agreement was signed in this way.

This made Zhao Xin lose his goal all of a sudden.

The key is……

The state affairs also seemed to have become a lot easier, which made Zhao Xin want to slack off a little.

of course!

Even so.

Before guns and cannons were invented, Zhao Xin felt that his own safety was very insecure.

Therefore, Zhao Xin then focused all his energy on training soldiers and making guns and cannons.

Then from time to time, he asked his father to write a letter to Fan Zhongyan.

In order to guide Fan Zhongyan to dismiss some redundant officials.

can only say……

It is a bit difficult to make Fan Zhongyan do exactly what you want.

Zhao Xin’s idea was to just lay off the people and forget about it.

Fan Zhongyan, on the other hand, thought of directly changing the assessment system for officials.

In the past, officials of the Song Dynasty, no matter whether you did a good job or not.

As long as you stay in your original position for a certain period of time, you can be promoted.

But nowadays…

Fan Zhongyan believed that they should be given certain assessments.

At least you have to achieve some results before you can get promoted.

Fan Zhongyan was certainly not wrong to think so.

The issue is……

Zhao Xin was afraid that some officials, in order to get promoted and avoid being laid off, started to act recklessly again.

The Song Dynasty was already in chaos.

If Fan Zhongyan continued to do this, the Song Dynasty might become even more chaotic.

Don’t let that happen and force another Baozhou mutiny, that would be bad.

of course!

After the Western Xia side is really stabilized, Zhao Xin still intends to reuse Fan Zhongyan.

Just reform directly, that's all.

It is better to let Fan Zhongyan be the Censor, whose main job is to inspect local areas and be responsible for monitoring the merits and demerits of local officials and social order.

By the time……

Then ask Fan Zhongyan to hand over a list of some unusable officials.

For example, how is the water conservancy in the area you are managing?

If you are too lazy to even take care of water conservancy, then why are you an official?

This proves that you don’t care about the people at all.

However, if Fan Zhongyan was transferred away, Han Qi would stay behind. Zhao Xin was really worried about having Han Qi guard the border alone.

Then transfer Han Qi back and let him inspect the local area with Fan Zhongyan.

Don’t worry about anything else for now, let’s first take a look at how the water conservancy projects in your various states and counties are going.

Water conservancy is the foundation of the people and the country. If you don’t take it seriously, then you shouldn’t be an official.

But of course, you have to consider that in some places, they really don’t have the money to develop water conservancy projects and are unable to do anything.

Then it depends on whether you are a very extravagant official and just drink with others all day long.

If this is the case, then they should also be laid off!
Since you like drinking so much, then go home and drink.

Zhao Xin directed his father, "Daddy, just write like this!"

Zhao Zhen: "..."

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Xin helplessly, and then said as he wrote: "Zui Xinglai, are you the official, or am I the official?"

Zhao Xin said, "You are."

Zhao Zhen then said, "Then why does Father feel that you are more like an emperor? Father is almost like your Imperial Edict Writer now."

Zhao Xin said, "Dad, you and I are father and son, why are we still fussing over these things? This is all for our Zhao family! When the war in the northwest really stops, we can transfer Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi back. We can just leave Di Qing, Liu Hu, Zhong Shiheng and others to defend this place."

Then Zhao Xin just finished speaking that day.

the next day……

The court received the news of Zhong Shiheng's death. How embarrassing!

Probably because I was overworked.

After the descendant of the Zhong family spoke of his father's contributions, Zhao Xin thought that Shi Heng was quite smart, because if the other party had not used a strategy of sowing discord to alienate the two generals under Li Yuanhao, the brothers Yeli Yuqi and Yeli Wangrong, the Song Dynasty would have been in an unpredictable situation.

Because Yeli Yuqi and his brother Yeli Wangrong have always been known in Western Xia for their military prowess and strategy, the soldiers under their command are also said to be very good at fighting.

Then such meritorious officials should naturally be rewarded generously!
only……

Isn’t Zhong Shiheng from the same group as Pang Ji?
How is this going?

After Zhong Shiheng passed away, Pang Ji did not give any credit to Zhong Shiheng, but required the descendants of the Zhong family to come in person to report his father's merits.

Doesn’t it feel like there’s something wrong with this Pang Ji?
After Zhao Xin returned, he told this to his father.

Zhao Zhen didn't realize that Zhao Xin was actually quite sensitive.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Who knows?"

Zhao Xin said, "The Song Dynasty was brought down by your scheming against me and me scheming against you. The Zhenguan era of Emperor Taizong Wen was still the best!"

Zhao Zhen didn't know what the charm of Emperor Taizong Wen was.

Logically speaking, he had also read "The Book of Tang", so why didn't he realize that Emperor Taizong Wen had such great charm?

After the court session, it was still early, so Zhao Xin didn't have lunch. He went back and told Madam Miao that he was going to the military camp.

Then, he hurriedly left the palace with five hundred people.

Seeing Zhao Xin's appearance, Madam Miao and his father looked at each other and shook their heads.

Other children, at this age, generally like to play.

The same was true for Zhao Zhen himself.

But what about the most exciting thing?
Madam Miao asked Gao Taotao to tell him to play and stop working all the time. As a result, his next step was to build a Cuju field.

I heard it's still okay now.

There are quite a lot of tourists.

If polo is a game among aristocrats.

Then Cuju was a game that could be played by ordinary people in the Song Dynasty.

But this is not the point!

The point is, whatever you get can be used to make money and work.

Sometimes, Madam Miao actually wishes he could play like a normal child.

Take Huirou for example, that’s very normal.

After expressing his feelings in front of the emperor, Zhao Zhen also looked outside the door in silence.

But is there any way to do this?
But it wasn't me, his father, who asked him to do this.

He wanted to do it himself.

I can't even pull him back.

I had no choice but to joke with Miao: "Maybe doing things this way, in his eyes, is just playing?"

Madam Miao frowned and looked at Zhao Zhen.

Sir, do you believe what you said?

at the same time……

This is Zhao Xin.

In a military camp fifty miles away from the closed city.

Both the soldiers in training and the instructors who train the soldiers feel that it is too depressing to train in a closed military camp all day with nothing but farmland around.

then……

Ask Zhao Xin if it is possible to add some entertainment activities so that life in the barracks will not be so monotonous and boring.

When Zhao Xin heard about this, of course there was no problem.

Can we bring Cuju in too?

only……

Now that there is neither Cuju nor a Cuju field, we can use other things to relieve boredom.

then……

Zhao Xin taught them to sing.

This army!
You must have your own military song.

The Qin Dynasty had "Wu Yi", the Han Dynasty had "Da Feng Ge", the Tang Dynasty had "Qin Wang Po Zhen Qu", so my Song Dynasty must also have its own exclusive military song.

(End of this chapter)